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After two decades of success front and centre in dance clubs with hits by BKS and Love Inc. as well as other collaborations and solo releases, Canadian singer Simone Denny’s debut album The Stereo Dynamite Sessions Volume 1 is now on release, with the reflective “Black Roses” as the lead off featured song. Last year of course I just adored the introduction to this project, “Your Love Fades Away, which got to #16 on my chart, a complete shift for Simone away from dance territory music and straight into her R&B roots as a sultry jazz/soul club songstress. It works beautifully, showing the power and emotion that is in fact the basis for so many dance music hits. And “Black Roses” extends this with its heartbreak and self-realization after the end of a relationship occurs. This is the kind of performance that should give Simone yet another Juno Awards nomination in the end (she already has 5 of those awards!). I’m looking forward to hearing the rest of the album – which also contains her ballad take on ABC’s “The Look Of Love” – so get to know “Black Roses” with the clip below, and pick up The Stereo Dynamite Sessions Volume 1 on iTunes.